Paradoxically, people who do believe in God are emotionally attached to this belief, despite (or, perhaps, because of) his scariness. I explicitly remember when I was letting go of my belief, that is was a very emotionally trying time for me. For a time, I wanted to believe quite strongly. The evidence just didn't support it.
Now that a significant amount of time has passed, however, I have gotten used to not believing, and furthermore have recognized a large number of horrible consequences of the existence of a deity, such that I no longer have any desire to believe in one.
Now this is just utter nonsense. The Bible is just a horrid mass of contradictions. People have rather long lists of these, such as:
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/donald_morgan/contradictions.html
And there are many more contradictions that appear due to differences in tone. For example, the author of Mark portrays a very different personality of Jesus than does the author of Luke. But really, it only takes
one contradiction to demonstrate that the Bible is unreliable. There are hundreds to choose from. So why not this one?
[bible]2 Samuel 24:1[/bible]
[bible]1 Chronicles 21:1[/bible]
The context of these chapters make it clear that this is the exact same census. And yet, these seem to be saying the
exact opposite. Which was it, then? Did God incite David to perform the census, or did Satan? Or were both interpretations just the superstitious attributions of an unpopular act by an otherwise popular king to different mythical beings by two different authors?